robots.txt

If you're reading this, chances are you've seen our robot visiting your site while looking through your server logs. When we crawl to populate our index, we advertise the "User-agent" string "ObjectsSearch". You will see the agent "ObjectsSearch".

Our bot does retrieve and parse robots.txt files, and it looks for robots META tags in HTML. These are the standard mechanisms for webmasters to tell web robots which portions of a site a robot is welcome to access.

Our bot follows the robots.txt exclusion standard, which is described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#robotstxt. Depending on the configuration, our robot may obey different rules. To make it simple to send our bot away, we'll always obey rules for "ObjectsSearch". Here are the different cases.

When we're running to populate our index, we'll advertise the agent "ObjectsSearch", and obey rules for "ObjectsSearch" if they exist, or "*".

To ban all bots from your site, place the following in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

User-agent: ObjectsSearch
Disallow: /


User-agent: ObjectsSearch
Disallow:

To ban all ObjectsSearch bots from your site:

User-agent: ObjectsSearch
Disallow: /

Webmasters/Robots META

If you do not have permission to edit the /robots.txt file on your server, you can still tell robots not to index your pages or follow your links. The standard mechanism for this is the robots META tag, as described at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html.

To tell ObjectsSearch, and other robots, not to index your page or follow your links, insert this META tag into the HEAD section of your HTML document:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

Of course, you can control the "index" and "follow" directives independantly. The keywords "all" or "none" are also allowed, meaning "index,follow" or "noindex,nofollow", respectively. Some examples are:

<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta
  name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="robots"
  content="index,nofollow">
<meta name="robots"
  content="noindex,follow">
<meta name="robots"
  content="none">

If there are no robots META tags, or if an action is not specifically prohibited (ie. neither "nofollow" or "none" appears), ObjectsSearch will assume it is allowed to index or follow links.

Objects Search robot is listed in the registry of web robots.